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he did not draw in their principal characters, contributor to the exhibitions of this society, thereby forming a storehouse for theatrical where most of his works appeared, but bebiography. Charles Mathews, jun., describes tween 1807 and 1828 he also exhibited at the De Wilde towards the close of his life as con- Royal Academy and the British Institution. stantly to be found at the corner of Drury Lane In 1810 he married Harriet, the sister of Theatre, portfolio under his arm, and as having | William Hilton, R.A. [q. v.], who was a had a happy knack of invariably hitting off a fellow-pupil of his under John Raphael Smith. likeness. A large number of portraits by De The two friends lived together from 1802 to Wilde collected by Mr. Harris, the lessee of 1827, when Hilton was made keeper of the Covent Garden Theatre, and sold in 1820, were Royal Academy. Till De Wint married they purchased by Charles Mathews, sen. [q. v.], lived in Broad Street, Golden Square, and and formed part of his gallery at Hampstead, afterwards in Percy Street. In 1827 De which was exhibited at the Queen's Bazaar, Wint moved to 40 Upper Gower Street, Oxford Street, in 1833. The greater part of where he remained till his death. There is these were subsequently purchased by Mr little to record of a life so devoted to art. He John Rowland Durrant, and presented by was never so happy as when painting dihim to the Garrick Club in 1852, where they rectly from nature in the open air, and he now remain. A series of twenty similar was very popular as a teacher. He made portraits are in the print-room at the British many friends among the nobility and gentry, Museum. De Wilde died in London 19 Jan. at whose country seats he was a frequent 1832, aged eighty-four, and was buried in the visitor. Among these were the Earl of Lonsburial-ground adjoining Whitefield's Taber- dale, the Earl of Powis, the Marquis of Ailesnacle in Tottenham Court Road. Among other bury, Mr. Fawkes of Farnley Hall, Yorkshire, children he left a son, GEORGE JAMES DE and Mr. Ellison of Sudbrooke Holme, LinWILDE, born in London 1804, who was origin-colnshire. He died of disease of the heart at ally destined for an artist, but adopted a literary career. A friend of Leigh Hunt, the Cowden Clarkes, Sir James Stephen, and others, he contributed many articles to various periodicals, and eventually became editor of the 'Northampton Mercury,' continuing so till his death on 16 Sept. 1871. He was twice married, and much respected at Northampton. A collection of his writings,chiefly topographical, was edited after his death by his friend Edward Dicey, under the title of 'Rambles round about."

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DE WINT, PETER (1784–1849), landscape-painter, was born at Stone in Staffordshire on 21 Jan. 1784. His father was a physician descended from a Dutch family which had settled in America. He was the fourth son, and was intended for his father's profession, but, preferring art, he was apprenticed in 1802 to John Raphael Smith [q. v.], to learn engraving and portrait-painting. In 1806 his indentures were cancelled, and after this he spent much time with Dr. Monro of the Adelphi, the well-known patron of young artists, who much admired his sketches. It was not till 1809 that he entered the schools of the Royal Academy. In 1810 he joined the (now Royal) Society of Painters in WaterColours, of which he became a full member in 1812. For nearly forty years he was a

40 Upper Gower Street, London, 30 Jan. 1849, and was buried in the ground of the Royal Chapel in the Savoy.

De Wint was not only one of the finest water-colour painters of the English school, but an admirable painter in oils. His art was distinctly national, his subjects chosen mainly in the eastern and northern counties of England, and especially at or near Lincoln, where his wife's parents lived. In 1828 he took a short tour in Normandy, his only visit to the continent, and in 1829 he went to Wales for the first time. In 1843 he visited

Hampshire and the New Forest, and his last excursion was to Devonshire in 1848. His works are distinguished by their powerful, deep, and blooming, but somewhat grave colouring, by strength and simplicity of light and shade, and fidelity to ordinary aspects of nature.

The national collections are richer in the works of De Wint than of any other of the greater English landscape-painters except Turner. To the South Kensington Museum Mrs. Tatlock, the daughter of the painter, presented four oil paintings, including two of his largest and finest works, A Corn Field' and 'Woody Landscape with water and a horseman attended by dogs.' The same lady also presented two out of the twenty-eight water-colours by De Wint in the same collection. To the National Gallery the late Mr. Henderson bequeathed twenty-three drawings in 1880, including some of De Wint's finest works, such as 'Lincoln Cathedral,' 'Bray-on-the-Thames,'

After his death his works were sold at Christie's and realised 2,3647. 78. 6d. for 493 lots, the largest price brought by any one drawing being 31. 108.

[Redgrave's Dict.; Wedmore's Studies in English Art.]

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DEWSBURY, WILLIAM (1621-1688), an early quaker preacher and author, was born in 1621 at Allerthorpe, near Pocklington in the East Riding of Yorkshire. Up to his thirteenth year he was a shepherd's boy, and afterwards served his apprenticeship to a cloth-weaver at Holbeck, Leeds. He was a pious youth, and used to take down in shorthand the sermons he heard. When the civil war broke out he joined the parliamentary army, because its partisans said they fought for the gospel. His comrades were not likeminded with himself, and, feeling conscious

of a command to put away his sword, he left

'Ruins of Lincoln Castle,' and 'Harvest Time, George Tennyson of Bayons Manor, LinLancashire.' colnshire, M.P. for Bletchingley, who died on 4 July 1835, by Mary, daughter of John Turner of Castor, was baptised at Market Rasen on 20 July 1784, and educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he proceeded B.A. in 1805, and M.A. in 1818. He was called to the bar at the Inner Temple on 21 Nov. 1806, but does not appear to have practised. As member for Great Grimsby he entered parliament in 1818, and retained his seat for that borough till 1826. He sat for Bletchingley from 1826 to 1831, and on 3 May in that year, after a contest, obtained a seat for Stamford, in opposition to Lieutenantcolonel Thomas Chaplin. The excitement attending this election was very great, and led to a duel on Wormwood Scrubbs between Lord Thomas Cecil, the other member for Stamford, and Tennyson. After the passing of the Reform Bill the new metropolitan borough of Lambeth selected him as its first twenty years, retiring in 1852 to literary and representative. He sat for that constituency domestic life at Bayons Manor. During his the commons a Landlord and Tenant Bill, early parliamentary career he carried through which afterwards became law, and on 28 May 1827 he succeeded in passing a measure to prohibit the setting of spring guns (7 & 8 Geo. IV, cap. xviii.) On the accession of the of the ordnance (30 Dec. 1830), but retired whig party to power he was appointed clerk in February 1832, ostensibly from ill-health, and was named a privy councillor on 6 Feb. He made unsuccessful attempts in 1833 and 1834 to bring in bills to shorten the duration of parliament and to repeal the SeptennialAct. He gave his energetic support to all liberal and the repeal of the corn and navigation measures, and advocated municipal reform laws. On 22 June 1853 his friends in Lambeth presented him with a testimonial. He succeeded his father in 1835, and on 27 July in that year took by royal license the additional surname of D'Eyncourt. He was high steward of Louth, and a magistrate and much devoted to antiquarian subjects, and deputy-lieutenant for Lincolnshire. He was showed his architectural taste by the additions he made to the castellated mansion of Bayons Manor. On 19 Feb. 1829 he was elected F.R.S., having previously been nominated F.S.A. His death took place at the residence of his son-in-law, John Hinde Palmer, Q.C., 8A Gloucester Place, Portman Square, London, on 21 July 1861. He married, on 1 Jan. 1808, Frances Mary, only child of Rev. John Hutton, by whom he had eight children. She died on 26 Jan. 1878.

the army and returned to his former calling. He heard George Fox preach at Balby in Yorkshire, and at once was in accord with him in the doctrine of the inward divine reproving for that which is evil.' He became a zealous preacher and went through great sufferings. He was imprisoned for no less than nineteen years for the sake of his religion. The places of his confinement were York in 1654, 1658, and 1661, Derby in 1654, Northampton in 1654, Newgate in 1660, and Warwick in 1660, and again there from 1663 to 1671, and from 1678, at the time of the popish plot, to April 1685, when he was set at liberty on the general proclamation of James II. He was taken ill in May 1688 in London, whither he had come to attend the

yearly meeting of Friends, but returned to Warwick and died on 17 June 1688. He was twice married, first in 1646, and a second

time in 1667.

Between 1654 and 1686 he wrote and published many tracts, which were collected in 1689 under the title of 'The Faithful Testimony of that Antient Servant of the Lord and Minister of the Everlasting Gospel, William Dewsbury, in his Books, Epistles, and Writings, collected and printed for future service, 4to. Two of his epistles to Friends in Holland have never been translated into English.

[Edward Smith's Life of W. Dewsbury, 1836; Sewel's Hist. of the Quakers, 1834, ii. 345; Jos. Smith's Cat. of Friends' Books, i. 523-8; Besse's Sufferings of the Quakers, i. 518, 763, ii. 496; Fox's Journal, 1836, i. 153.]

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